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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Beneath the neon lights of a laser-scanning microscope, newly classified species glow ...

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A glowing golden orb discovered on the ocean floor during a NOAA expedition baffled scientists until new genetic research ...

After more than two years of analysis, NOAA and Smithsonian scientists have identified the viral "golden orb." (NOAA ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.